ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,016, issued on July 1, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Construction machine" was invented by Kohei Okazaki (Chikugo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a turn frame of an excavation machine, a hydraulic oil tank is placed in the center of a right engine chamber in the front-back direction, a control valve is placed in front of the hydraulic oil tank, a battery is further placed in front of the control valve, and a cool mechanism is placed behind the hydraulic oil tank. The controller, which outputs a signal to drive the control valve, is placed opposite the hydraulic oil tank."

The patent was filed on J...